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110,536,043. Patented Mar.19,1895.

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PATENT soLoMoN Z. QUINT, OF NEW YORK, N.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,043, dated March 19, 1895.

Application filed November 15 ,1894. Serial No. 528,923. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON Z. QUINT, of New-York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to suspender buckles; and itsobject is to provide a new and improved buckle, which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to securely fasten into the web of suspenders or similar articles, and to permit of conveniently unlocking the buckle to shift the same on the web, to shorten or lengthen the suspender or other article as the case may be. a

The invention consists of a main frame having a cross rod or bar extending over the Web at the front thereof, and a clamping toothed bar adapted to engage the web at the back, opposite the said cross bar, and an auxiliary frame carrying the said toothed bar, and hinged on the said main frame and adapted to be locked thereto.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a rear perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same.

The improved buckle is provided with a main frame A, preferably formed of a single piece of.wire bent to form the top cross bar A, and a clamping cross bar A provided with a hook A extending from the middle, and adapted to receive the ring of thev suspender ends in the usual manner. The cross bar A is provided with the side arms A formed into eyes A connected with the cross bar A as is plainly illustrated in the drawings. The eyes A of the main frame A are engaged by corresponding pendants or hooks B, of an auxiliary frame B, so that the latter is hinged on the main frame A. Y

The pendants or hooks B terminate in a cross bar B extending across the back of the web approximately opposite the cross bar A B on which is attached a cross bar 0 preferably made of sheet metal, and formed with a toothed bar 0 extending at right angles to the plate 0 to engage the web at the rear, slightly above the cross bar A The arms B3 are extended upward and forward to form the clamping bars B adapted to pass over the side arms A to fasten or look the auxiliary frame to the main frame A at the time the toothed bar 0' extends transversely, and securely engages with its teeth, the'web above the bar A.

It will be seen that by the arrangement de scribed, the auxiliary frame carrying the toothed bar 0 is hinged on the main frame A, and is adapted to be fastened thereto by swinging the auxiliary frame forward to cause the spring arms B to pass over and engage the side arms A When the operator desires to loosen or disengage the buckle from the web, he presses on the arms 13*, so as to disengage the same from the side arms A and then swings the auxiliary frame B rearward to move the toothed bar 0' into a vertical position, and out of engagement with the web.

It will be seen that the device is very simple and durable in construction, can be cheaply manufactured and readily applied on the web and the construction permits of conveniently shifting the buckle on the web to lengthen or shorten the suspender or other article, on which the buckle is applied.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a buckle, the combination of a main frame having a cross-bar adapted to extend over one side of the Web and having parallel eyes projecting at right angles from its sides at the ends of the cross-bar, an auxiliary frame having loops formed at its sides to engage the eyes on the main frame whereby a hinge connection is formed between the two frames, said auxiliary frame being provided with a cross-bar to extend over the other side of the web, said cross bars on the main and auxiliary frames being adjacent to one an* other, and means for locking the free end of the auxiliary frame to the main frame sub stantially as set forth.

2. A buckle, comprising a main frame havframe, an auxiliary frame pivotally connected ing two cross bars, and eyes formed on the ends of the lower cross bar, an auxiliary frame hinged in the said eyes and formed with looking arms engaging the side arms of the said main frame, and a toothed plate or bar secured to the said auxiliary frame and adapted to engage the Web, opposite the lower cross bar of the main frame, substantially as 10 shown and described.

3. In a buckle, the combination of a main thereto, locking devices at the opposite sides of the auxiliary frame for looking it to the main frame, inturned loops on the auxiliary frame and a serrated bar secured at its ends to the inner portions of said loops and adapted to engage the web, substantially as set forth.

SOLOMON Z. QUINT. Witnesses:

THEO. G. IIOSTER, O. SEDGWIOK. 

